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Strategies for detection of melamine
in milk products
Xin Wu
Literature Seminar
05/03/2010
Objective
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Compare two methods to detect of melamine in
milk products.
Melamine
 2,4,6-triamino-s-triazine, MM
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In manufacture of:
Plastics,
Flame retardant
Fertilizer
 Toxicity
 Acute toxicity
 Chronic toxicity
 Contaminants in
many kinds of food
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Summary of the detection methods
Nitrogen methods
Kjeldahl method
Most traditional
subtractive method
veracity is poor
Other methods
sublimation and picric acid
weight methods
high veracity, complicated operation,
time-consuming
GC with UV/MS detection
Expensive, derivatization before GC
.sensitive
LC-MS/MS
LOD low, sensitive but complicated
Kjeldahl method
 Degradation: Protein + H2SO4 → (NH4)2SO4(aq) + CO2(g)
+ SO2(g) + H2O(g)
 Liberation of ammonia: (NH4)2SO4(aq) + 2NaOH →
Na2SO4(aq) + 2H2O(l) + 2NH3(g)
 Capture of ammonia: B(OH)3 + H2O + NH3 → NH4+ +
B(OH)4–
 Back-titration: B(OH)3 + H2O + Na2CO3 → NaHCO3(aq)
+ NaB(OH)4(aq) + CO2(g) + H2O
Paper I
Residue analysis of melamine in milk Products
by micellar electrokinetic capillary
chromatography with amperometric detection
Jinyan Wang, Lianmei Jiang, Qingcui Chu , Jiannong Ye
Food Chemistry 121 (2010) 215–219
Capillary electrophoresis (CE)
 Separate ionic species by their charge and mass.
 UV or fluorescence detection
 Advantages of CE over HPLC
Micellar electrokinetic chromatography
 Modification of capillary electrophoresis
 Sample separated between micelles and buffer
 C(Surfactant) >CMC
 in open capillaries under
alkaline conditions
 Sodium dodecyl sulfate
(SDS)
Shegeru,Japan Chemical Journal 8:291-301
Materials and Preparation
 laboratory-built CE–AD system
 MM ; Milk and infant formula milk powder samples;
running buffer (8 mmol/L SDS/20 mmol/L H3BO3–
Na2B4O7 solution)
 Weighed-Extracted by ultrasonic bath-filtered-CEAD system
Effect of the potential applied to the
working electrode
1 Above 750 mV, oxidation
current increased rapidly
with applied
potential.
2 Above 1200 mV, unstable
baseline
3 1150mV is best choice
Effects of the pH value
1 pH range 7.4-9.2
2 MM always overlapped
with the unknown
compound peak in real
samples
3 pH is optimum pH
Effects of SDS
1 at a fixed pH value 7.4
2 longer retention time
with increased
concentration of SDS
3 8 mmol/L SDS is
optimum concentratioin
Electropherograms
Recovery of samples
Conclusion
 A new method of MECC-AD to residue analysis of
melamine
 For the real world sample
 Run time is 9 min
 Good recoveries ranging from 83.3% to 105.5% of MM
were determined
 Practical method with sample preconcentration
Paper II
A sensitive and validated method for
determination of melamine residue in liquid
milk by reversed phase high-performance liquid
Chromatography with solid-phase extraction
Hanwen Sun, Lixin Wang, Lianfeng Ai, Shuxuan Liang, Hong Wu
Food Control 21 (2010) 686–691
HPLC
 separate, identify, and quantify compounds based on their
idiosyncratic polarities and interactions with the column's
stationary phase
 A pump propel the mobile
phase and analyte through
densely packed column
 Widely used
 Various types of HPLC
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solid-phase extraction (SPE)
 Concentrate and purify samples for analysis
 Used to separate analytes from a variety of matrices:
(1) blood
(2) animal tissue
(3) water etc.
 Mobile phase (liquid and analyte); Stationary Phase (solid)
 Silica
Materials and Methods
 Cleanert PCX-SPE cartridges (3 mL/60 mg), LC–MS/MS
(Thermo Electron Corp., San Jose, CA, USA), an SeQuant
ZIC HILIC column.
 Sodium n-heptanesulfonate, acetonitrile, melamine, 1%
trichloroacetic acid, 2.2% lead acetate solution, liquid milk
sample
 Confirmation by LC-MS/MS, Sample extraction and clean-
up, HPLC analysis,
The effects of pH
pH =2.7 is the
optimum value
The effects of the ratio (v/v) between 10 mM
sodium n-heptanesulfate (pH 2.7) and acetonitrile
retention time
of melamine
shorted with
the decrease of
ratio value.
The LOD and recovery of sample
Conclusion
 A new method of RP-HPLC-SPE to residue analysis of
melamine
 Real world sample
 Run time is 10 min
 Good recoveries ranging from 85.5–99.3%of MM were
determined
Comparison of the two methods
TIME(min)
LOD (10-6g/ml)
Recovery
MECC-AD
9
2.1
83.3% to 105.5%
RP-HPLC-SPE
10
3
85.5–99.3%
Acknowledgements
 Professor Kermit K. Murray
 Murray Research Group
 Audience
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